 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the play ratings Everton nil Manchester City 3 a utterly professional performance by Manchester City to take the game away from Everton if there was ever a game to take away from us. We started all right huffed and puffed a little bit and then created a couple of half chances through Shia, the termination and endeavour but Manchester City do what Manchester City do and they keep turning the screw until something gives and they found that today with two very very quick goals. Both from disappointing cos defensively you have a lot of you watching, they are disappointing. It was a strange one because they set up, it was almost like, well it wasn't almost, Pep Guard the older had obviously looked at the situation and thought Everton don't score many goals at home and they basically just stuck on the one off front and went with two forwards and left very little at the back if anything a couple of centre backs. It gave them a lot more options and players didn't know where to come or where to go and both goals, both goals the person who scores just get in between the centre back and the full back and for the first one it's a cross from the left hand side and no one even tries to stop the cross which is really really sad that no one's trying to force. You look at the cross it's not even, there's a spare man but it's just no one stops the cross and the play gets in between Patterson and I think it might have been Tarkals go and takes it on his knee and swithles and scores great finish to be honest and the second goal, it's a long ball, it's a long ball. They win the second ball, the one puts a great crossing and the great position up from Harland gets on the shoulder of Holgate and headers it back across goal to get the second and again the third goal is James Garner takes out folding and it's a great free kick. We didn't really trouble them because we didn't really try and trouble them, we certainly weren't playing like we were last week, it's that thing of like whether you stick or you twist, we were either going to maybe win 1-0 today or get be heavily so they are just a difference, they are unbelievable. Do you see that from the subs they brought on, the subs are incredible. We didn't play like we played last week because it's a different kind of game but it was what it was, it was always going to be one of those games. I think we don't build again that thing of building it up in your own mind that we were going to get up more of it because we'd be brighting 5-1. As I said on my other video you told me we were going to get 3 points out of those two games, I'd have beat your hand off for those 3 points so yeah it was just one of those wasn't it? It just feels like it took the wind out of ourselves a little bit but listen if Liverpool do the job tomorrow then going into the final two games against sides that were on the beach that it means a lot more to us then that's all you could have asked for. If we're not in the bottom three at the beginning of next week then that's exactly where I would have wanted us to be going into the two games, simple as that really. Let's get into the play ratings, Jordan Pickford, I didn't say but I believe Roy Keane basically tore a stick off him saying he doesn't command the box or anything like that. I mean we saw last week how good he is, the second goal could he have done better, I don't think so, Bulleterra from Harland, the free kick, it's a wonderful free kick, I don't know again, I don't know if he could have done any better. I thought his kick was a little bit off today, yeah I don't know, I'm not a goalkeeper but I don't know. The free kick people look at it and some people think it's a wonder goal, some people think it's a bad goalkeeper. I don't know, I don't know but his kicking was a little bit off for me so I've given him a six. Nathan Patterson, tough day for Patterson because both goals in a way have been, the first one comes down, the other side and it's Gunderman's got in between him and the centre back and then the second goal. He actually deals with the long ball and then Gunderman picks the ball up and runs with it and crosses it and it's like he has to deal with it twice. But I thought he was okay and I thought second half he actually gives a little bit of offensive, shows a bit of offensive inside of his game. Putting one great cross that Mopai didn't really look at to be honest but it was a great ball in. It's always difficult, he did get up and down the pitch, his heatmap shows that he got up and down the pitch and actually it's quite strong at the opposite end of the pitch. I still think defensively he's still got a lot to lane and he has got a lot to lane, I have to stress this every week. He has got a lot to lane, he has not played a lot of football this lad at the highest level so I think he's still got plenty to come and that will take games. I think this is one of those players that you know there's something about them and we have to persist with them and make sure that he has a lot of games but it's tough games. I've given a six against the quality that they had, I thought he did okay to be honest. On the other side Mason Hallgate, tough game for Mason Hallgate, he's come in for a cup for obviously the palace game and he got sent off and being put in today. No Michalenko, the back up for Nagri who haven't been used anyway, he's out for the rest of the season and he's been preferred there. It was a tough day for him and in a way I felt like he'd been hung out to dry a little bit today because just playing in that position, playing left back, we had two goalkeepers on the bench today, that says it all doesn't it. But there's no Ben Godfrey on the bench, Rich Welsh is on the bench. You look at the bench there's literally no one else you could have played there today and I did feel sorry for him. Marys just destroyed him to be honest and I'd like to have seen a little bit more help and a little bit more support. I said if you watch that face goal, no one really tries to block the cross. He gets doubled up on so much during the game that I actually felt a little bit sorry for him. But he was really poor though. I mean that has to be said he was really poor in the game and obviously he's ended up being sub. That's why I felt I did because he's not a left back. He's not a left back. It was just a really bad day for him. But as I said I thought he was throwing in at the deep end today so I've given Mason all gates a three and a half, 3.5. Jeremine, he spent most of the day just trying to fight with Harland and put Harland off his strad. Two of his four aerial battles, certainly not the one where he scored from and two of his three aerial ground duels. Again, you can't look at him and go he had a bad game. I don't think he had a bad game. I just think that the way they played and they played with two up front and they get the wide men involved. And he was up against four mid double opposition there in Harland today. One of if not the best striker in the world. He tried to put them off his strad, didn't quite work but I've given him a six. James Tarkowski, for me look at James Tarkowski's heat mappies, a large dunk of his right over on the left hand side. Obviously getting out there to try and help with the covering. Again, I don't think he had a particularly terrible game but I don't think he didn't make it comfortable for him at all so I'll give him a six as well. Drissa Garnagay got subbed after 56 minutes, only touched the ball 20 times today. A lot of his work was to just try and block the passing lanes and break up play if he could. Three tackles, one interception, ground duels one three out of three aerial duels one out of two, lost possession twice. So again, it's hard to, Mason Hulgate was like he did have a bad game and as I said I think there's reasons for that. But you look at a lot of the other players and they're all trying to do the job up against absolutely well class footballers and then the subs come on and they're all well class. So Drissa Garnagay have given him a six in a half today, went off probably just to save his own legs. But again, it's that thing of just doing the job he's been given. James Garnagay give away the foul for the third goal, couldn't get near folding to be honest. He had 37, such is so nearly double as many as Drissa Garnagay. He is someone who's supposed to get on the ball and try and do something with it. But if you haven't got any movement in front here or the wide plays and not creating anything to it for you, it's really difficult and then you end up just being another midfielder. Just do what trying to do, trying to do your job. He's a weird one Garner because he's a nice neat and tidy footballer but I don't know how much else he's got. It's difficult to see in this team. We don't have a lot of runners. We don't have a lot of intricate play. He's someone to me who's like a little quarterback player, gets the ball in deep areas and tries to move it round the pitch. I just don't see that. You don't see that with this team. He is very, very nice, neat and tidy player. He does the hard work as well. Ground rules today 1-5 out of 6. He's got a little bit of everything but it's difficult in this team when the team isn't maybe set up to play the way, to play the style he plays. I've given him a 6-1.5. The core is touch, just let him down so many times today. He was one, I think it was in the second half when we were breaking forward and it looked like he was going to break forward for it. But it was a weird, I was almost like an optical illusion because he'd already lost the ball but it's touch, let him down so many times today. Because City are on you straight away. They're on you like flies. You just can't get away from that. That's the one thing that let him down is his touch. It really is. It really can be poor in tight situations. He didn't really offer too much of a threat going forward today. Helping out Dominic Arvind Llewn. His touch was poor. It really was. I've given him a 5.5. I think the other two going forward as well with a little bit like that as well. Alex Oroby. Again that final ball, that final touch. I also think the two wide men could have done more to help out the full backs today like they did last week. These are the games where you look at like Oroby. These are the games where you just need that something and I don't think we've quite got it. Alex Oroby's possession lost eight times but that again it all comes down to where in the pitch he does lose it. Heap maps suggest he's on the edge of the box a lot but there's just no final ball from him. But again City, they just make it so hard for you. They really do. They make it so hard for you to try and create anything. And because we isolated Dominic Arvind Llewn, it is tough. Alex Oroby have given him a 5.5. The White Mach Neil, again worked really hard. Got us out of the crap on one occasion by making a great cover and run, getting back and stopping them from breaking. Again, no lack of effort. Touch the ball 66 times. That's a lot more than Oroby. That's probably one of the highest in the team. Again, I talk about it every week. It's great the defensive side of the thing but what are they doing offensively? He's opened down that left hand side. You can't. He does his best to protect the full back. That was one of the big things last week. A dribbled attempt today, three out of five successful. That's really good. But no shots on target, no shots off target. Why isn't he getting into areas where he can take more shots? Is that because of the defensive side of what he's doing? But again, very consistent performing the last few weeks. I did think there was times where he needed to help Hullgate out just a little bit more. And certainly for the first goal they scored, we could have been a lot tighter in that area. I'll give it a twight McNeill, 6.75 today. He didn't stop all game. Tireless to be fair to him. Dominic Carver-Lewin went off at half time. The talk is, well the manager said it's a tight groin and they don't want to take any risks. He said that after the Arsenal game. 11 weeks later. He came back. I thought Don played well first off. I thought he played well. Every time we give him the ball he was trying to create space. He was trying to move the ball. He was trying to open them up. He was keeping the ball really well. I mean he only touched the ball 12 times. But every time he got it he seemed to be able to create something. Just even running into space. Not letting them have free reign. Making sure we got a throwing from him. He looked sharp. I thought he took him out half time because we were 2-0 down. The manager might have thought this was done but I don't know. If he's not back for next week that is very worrying. Very very worrying because we had a different team. We had a completely different team with them and without them so that's a real worry. Mopai came on and he was... Mopai just wants to go short for everything and it's not the way we play because no one runs into the space. Neil Mopai is just the wrong player. Completely wrong player whether you think he's good, bad whatever. He's just the wrong player for this team. He wants to spin. He wants to come short. Take the ball. No one gives him short. So when he comes short there's a big space behind them and the last day centre backs just step up because no one runs into the space. Again the manager prefers Mopai to Sims. That's up to him. But Mopai as soon as the season's finished get rid of him. Move him on. He does not suit this team and it's bad for him as well because he's scored one goal all season and he just comes short. It's not the team we're not set up to play like that. It's pointless for him. It's pointless for us. So very poor signing. It hasn't worked. He's played a lot more than he should have. He has to go somewhere that suits his style because Evan does not suit his style. He just didn't do anything. Did he second half really? He had a shot on target but he had 11 touches of the ball. It's hard when you're a centre forward. It's hard when you're a centre forward and you're not touching the ball and you're not in the game and people are not playing to your strengths. I just get rid of him. I've given him a four. Conor Cody came on. We went to a three. We went to wing backs. He was all right. He was okay. Played for 35 minutes. He was okay. City took the foot off the break. He put the foot on the break. The last half an hour so he didn't have loads to deal with. Give him a six. He didn't have loads to deal with. Onara came on again. Last 35 minutes. Actually when we did change the shape we did have a nice little spell for about 15 minutes. We were getting on the ball and we were creating things and we were trying to go forward. Maybe if we'd had Dom on the pitch we could have created more. It did give them something different to think about. Again he was all right. 31 touches. He didn't have any ground juice. He kept way out of the defensive side of things. It's funny isn't it? Onara has a lot of talk about Onara. Leaving and going here or there for 70 million. When you watch him at times you think he's definitely having a settling in season in the Premier League. He'll go somewhere and people will go where did this play come from? Onara 5.5 for Onara and Damari Gray. Came on, dribbled around a bit. He gets on the ball and people are asking for it and he just does his own thing. Realised that he's not going anywhere. He turns around and goes back. I know if you just give the pass to Patterson we could have gone in the back. But he's just such a selfish player and hardly ever comes to anything. He's a weird player because he's obviously got talent but he's not willing. I don't think he's willing to put the hard work into unlock it or find that consistency. I'll give Damari Gray a 5. Difficult one because it's always difficult scoring when you're playing such an amazing side. Because they are just such a good side. They've brought in the likes of Mares and Foden, Alvarez. It's just such a good side. The right back is basically playing right wing from the entire game. And they were in that. They're in that real sort of thing now aren't they? The end of season and they get in every season. You look at them today and you think they'll win everything because they've just got the balance on and off the pitch. They're just unbelievable. So it's always hard as I said scoring because no one like I said the only hole gate was the only one who was like you go out. He was bad and that's because he's playing out of position. But everyone else you just go couldn't get near to play to a near. And that's how it is, some days that's how it is. We've got a full extent balanced football team for next week. That's all you can hope for. That is all you can hope for that next week. We've got our team and we go on to it with as strong as we can. One thing I did forget myself before was making a hole gate. That miss just before like it was two minutes before they scored that opportunity. Just small margins in games, small margins. But there you go. I couldn't ever sit here and go and have a go at anyone after that really. I haven't got the energy playing them. They're unbelievable. There you go. As I said, let's hope that I was back. Michael Enkel's back. We get a balanced scut team and we take on Wolves and we do something similar that we did down at Brighton. So there you go. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Make sure to check out my guys reaction if you haven't already. And what was great today was the reaction of the ground. Glad the streets at the end of the game. Singing and cheering for the players. That's what it's all about isn't it at this stage. What wasn't great was that stupid thing with the security guards on the pitch. That was ridiculous. 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